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When Your ADULT CHILD Starts Pulling Away… and You’re Not Sure What to Do Next
For Moms Navigating Distance with their Adult Daughters:
What happens when it feels like your adult child is pulling away after all you’ve done to raise them?
Especially after you’ve worked so hard to give your next generation something better than what you had.
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This Feeling Is Not a Red Flag
How comfortable are you moving ahead messy?
The human adventure is, by nature, messy. But sometimes, depending on our personal history…
Tool for Boundaries without Bracing
Ever find yourself tightening or bracing before you communicate a boundary?
Check out this simple tool…
Sometimes WE are the complicated mother (uggh!!)
If we’ve been doing our work to heal from our own mother wounds, and then we bump into rough relational waters with our own kiddos, it can feel disorienting.
So, what can we do?
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Self-blame Spiral- why & why it matters
Here’s why we spiral into self-blame and what we can do about it. (hint: this falls into the category of adaptive then, but costly now)
What were you thinking tree?
If the tree isn’t spiraling into regret and self-blame, why do we? Hint: figuring out how it was our fault would have been developmentally wise…
What Is Remothering?
Remothering is the self-care practice of turning within to access the nurturance, belonging, wise counsel, acceptance, love, and other mother qualities we, as humans, naturally seek.
The formal definition is…
Remothering Roadmap
Part of the “how do I remother myself” series. This article is a step-by-step overview of the remothering roadmap
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